Join us for our Policing Pregnancy webinar series to learn about the fight over who is a person in America and to hear our latest findings on pregnancy-related criminal charges after Roe v. Wade was overturned. Sign up at linktr.ee/pregnancyjust 🔔‼️

We came to the UN to deliver the recommendations our government refuses to face, because people’s lives cannot wait. This refusal is one more step in this administration’s intent to undermine human rights and silence those who are fighting to protect them.

Announcing “Reproductive Justice: Is Being Pregnant a Crime?” The overturning of Roe v. Wade has intensified barriers to comprehensive reproductive care. Our expert panel will explore how we can protect and advance reproductive rights. #ClassACTHR73Forum www.classacthr73.org/Reproductive...

Abortion bans are costing people their health, safety, and lives. This UN review of the US’s human rights record is our chance to demand accountability. #ReproRights #HumanRights youtu.be/EGuDHtXSEMg

Giving the state power over pregnancy fuels criminalization and strips rights from pregnant people. Learn more from Karen Thompson, Legal Director at @pregnancyjust.bsky.social, and Garin Marschall, co-founder of @patientforward.bsky.social, in the new rePROs Fight Back episode:

Anti-abortion activists are misusing the 14th Amendment to undermine the rights of pregnant people‼️ Our president, Lourdes A. Rivera, explains what is at stake on @rewirenewsgroup.com's Boom! Lawyered podcast. ⬇️

Get up — the ABA passed a resolution to help protect pregnant people❗We hope it is just the first of many steps toward ensuring that pregnant people can live with safety and dignity. No one should be punished because of their actions during pregnancy, or for any pregnancy outcome.

The choice to breastfeed is for parents, not law enforcement or family policing agencies. #nationalbreastfeedingmonth

"[F]or Galvis and her seven-month-old son, the [Sonesta] hotel was not a vacation — it was a jail." "Private guards contracted by [ICE] stood watch at all times." "She had no idea when she and her son Naythan [.] would ever get to leave." #Illinois #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

"In women's prisons across Texas, tear gas [..] has become the go-to response for minor infractions." "[T]hey gassed another dorm because someone flushed a tampon and clogged the day room toilet." "This isn't correction or rehabilitation. It's torture by another name." #Texas #USA #Incarceration

"They got taxpayers out here thinking that they are taking care of us. They ain't doing a [MFing] thing. That's it. Is that what you wanted to know?" –Sputnik on deaths from medical neglect in California's women's prisons. inquest.org/reclaimi...

There are lots of things that we can say is perfect being the enemy of good! There are things we can wiggle on! Allowing trans people to be cast out of society IS NOT ONE OF THOSE THINGS!!!

A Senate investigation has so far found 510 human rights abuses in ICE detention centers since Jan 20, including deaths, physical & sexual abuse, inadequate medical care, overcrowding & unsanitary conditions, inadequate food & water, extreme temperatures, denial of legal access, & child separation

NEW: The Preventing Maternal Deaths Act pumped tens of millions of dollars a year into a program to help fund state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. It’s now at risk of being cut. By @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social

Medicaid keeps hospital doors open for patients across the country, especially in rural communities where access to care can be limited. The GOP’s Big Ugly Bill will cut Medicaid and put 338 rural hospitals at risk.

"The average prison wage maxes out at 52 cents per hour, according to a new ACLU analysis, and many people make pennies per hour. That means that basics, like a $3 tube of toothpaste, can take days of work to afford. If you get paid, that is."

I asked a numbers guy: What else could Trump's $150 billion mass deportation budget pay for? The short answer is: Americans could get a lot of FREE health care, and shuttered rural hospitals could reopen their doors. For the long answer, you gotta click through.

Not enough people know this - and they should!

Transgender people are a tiny fraction of the federal prison population. But they are disproportionately targeted for abuse and assault.

I’m glad that the woman at the center of this story was able to make the choice she felt was right for her and her family. But what’s happening here is horrifying: conservatives are valorizing these stories strategically—they want to make the skyrocketing maternal mortality rate *positive*

“Recreating the commons also means ensuring de-commodified access to things that make life worth living — the things that are necessary to live fully…At the core of these commitments is a recognition of our deep, collective interdependence. That means taking responsibility for each other’s care.”

ICYMI: Arkansas is threatening two websites for simply telling people where they can find abortion pills, which raises First Amendment concerns, as @maryrziegler.bsky.social told @autonomynews.co. She said the point might be to create a chilling effect

From this weekend's @huffpost.com Must Reads: What happens to the women ICE detains? www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-de...

Abortion bans are not only cruel, but deadly.

Guttmacher expert @cbpolis.bsky.social spoke with @cnn.com about the Trump administration’s plan to incinerate nearly $10 million worth of contraceptives and the impact of denying these essential supplies to women and couples in low- and middle-income countries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUZY...

Since Roe, Idaho has lost 35% of its OB/GYN practicing physicians in the state (net new entrants). 35%. That poses a tremendous threat to reproductive healthcare for women. These laws legislating women’s bodies, primarily in red states, will serve no purpose other than to punish women.

Correct. The U.S. has a maternity care crisis and 6 in 10 maternity care deserts are in rural areas www.marchofdimes.org/maternity-ca...

Disability Justice is Reproductive Justice. Our fight for bodily autonomy is one & the same. Reproductive Justice means we ALL have the power & resources to make informed decisions about our own bodies. That includes people with disabilities. That includes all of us. #DisabilityPrideMonth

NEW: A JAMA study finds that "between August 2022 and December 2024 ... Idaho lost 94 of the 268 OBGYN physicians practicing obstetrics." Just 20 new OBGYNs moved to Idaho in that time, "and 114 of the 268 baseline obstetricians" stopped practicing, left the state, or retired.

There's somewhere around 22K women in ICE detention -- 40% of the 56K total avg # of detainees. They must navigate increasingly punitive systems, not equipped to handle gender-specific care, where sexual abuse can be rampant. And thanks to Trump, ICE & CBP are operating with less & less oversight.

What a powerful night of learning + community! Thanks to @rooftopfilms.bsky.social for hosting a conversation with Baby Doe filmmaker Jessica Earnshaw, journalist @susanrinkunas.com, and our own Pregnancy Justice attorney Dara Gell on the alarming rise of DNA tech to prosecute pregnancy loss.

Targeting abortion care = targeting all sexual and reproductive health care. Guttmacher’s #ReproductiveHealth Impact Study shows why. Learn more: www.guttmacher.org/reproductive...

In a friend-of-the-court brief representing 157 members of Congress, the Brennan Center explains how the administration's withholding of congressionally appropriated funds violates the Constitution. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

🚨NEW: Local jails & police departments are playing a key role in Trump’s mass arrest & deportation agenda The actual scope of this collaboration – and the true scale of immigrant arrests and detentions – has not been publicly available, until now 🧵

Our Principal Research Scientist @cbpolis.bsky.social analyzed how many people would be denied care from the US destruction of contraceptive supplies, in this @npr.org story:

In its statement to NPR, the US State Department referred to the contraceptives they plan to burn instead of sell as "abortifacient birth control commodities." So it's completely political, misogynist, and vindictive. The cruelty is the point.

"Featuring 15 testimonies spanning topics such as abortion, pregnancy, IVF, hysterectomies, HRT, and vaginal atrophy, [Repro Masculinity Art Project and Digital archive] contains a wealth of information that is often left out of conversations on reproductive justice." repromasculinity.org

Looking for heroes, you say? Let us introduce you to the abortion rights activists who took on Alabama's attorney general—and won. So many lessons here for the post-Roe era. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This is so important and long overdue.

This is what it looks like to prioritize politics over public health, to care more about control than care. Burning birth control while communities in need go without isn’t just wasteful—it’s a deliberate attack on global reproductive health.

NEW: Anti-abortion legal terrorist Jonathan Mitchell is helping a Texas man seeking to block his girlfriend from getting abortion pills. The suit seems intended to scare physicians out of prescribing the drugs under "shield laws" and women out of seeking abortions, said @jillwieberlens.bsky.social

Breaking, at the newsletter right now: jessica.substack.com/p/california...

Feminists and abortion rights activists warned that this would happen, and now here we are: A Tennessee woman has been denied prenatal care because she’s unmarried. The woman—who hasn’t shared her name—spoke about her experience at a town hall last week.

Reproductive rights groups have resumed helping Alabamians seeking out-of-state abortions after a ruling earlier this year from a federal judge. via @alabamareflector.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/repr...

Jonathan Mitchell, the architect behind some of the most extreme anti-abortion legislation in the nation, is representing another TX man taking legal action over his partner's alleged abortion. Some key background on anti-abortion litigation abuse from male partners via @jessicavalenti.bsky.social:

New @motherjones.com: Is the FDA about to keep pregnant women from taking antidepressants? Yesterday they quietly convened a panel whose participants suggested that women just feel emotions more deeply than men & that SSRIs cause autism (false). Meanwhile, mothers' mental health is plummeting.

Lawsuits from men against the doctors who provide abortions to their partners illustrate that men understand abortion bans as legal codifications of their private right to dominate and control women.

Marissa Potts was 23 weeks pregnant when she was arrested in Dec. 2021. “I spent many nights gulping water to stave off hunger, the sound of my grumbling stomach a lullaby to my unborn baby,” she details in an op-ed. Behind bars, pregnant women are ignored at best, abused & traumatized at worst.

Guttmacher expert @imaddowzimet.bsky.social spoke w/ @19thnews.org about harms of the new federal spending law that "defunds" Planned Parenthood. Our data show that thousands of people are already crossing state lines for abortion. The new law could push care even further out of reach. gu.tt/40mk7O1